Matters of Interpretation

Call to Worship [Based on Psalm 1]

There is Instruction here, that calls us.
Instruction like a river, and like a tree planted by a river.
Let us delight in it;
Let us drink deep from it;
Let us be transformed by it;
Let us worship God!

¹ Happy are those
    who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
or take the path that sinners tread,
    or sit in the seat of scoffers;
² but their delight is in the law of the HOLY ONE,
    and on God’s law they meditate day and night.
³ They are like trees
    planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
    and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.

⁴ The wicked are not so,
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
⁶ for the HOLY ONE watches over the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

Psalm 1

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